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And Then There Were Eight

Nat Young was once again the top performer of the day. Photo courtesy ASP/Robertson

Reigning ASP Junior Champ Maxime Huscenot will be watching the rest of the event after being knocked out. Photo courtesy Russ Hennings/Oakley

KERAMAS, Bali/Indonesia (Thursday, October 7 2010) -It was a barrel bonanza at the Oakley ASP World Pro Junior, event no.1 on the ASP World Junior Tour (WJT), in Bali today, with the world’s top young bloods going tube-for-tube in clean 5-6ft (1.5m) barrelling conditions at the host venue of Keramas.

With supreme conditions on offer, Contest Director, Beau Emerton, opted to start Round 4 of the men’s division at 6.30am in the best conditions seen for the event.

Santa Cruz star Nat Young (USA), 19, got straight to business in the opening heat of the morning against Tyler Newton (HAW), stalling through a selection of Keramas caverns to storm through to the quarter-finals with a day high 18.96 two-wave combined total (out of a possible 20).

After the heat was restarted with no waves ridden in the first ten minutes, the young Californian utilised his tube riding ‘A-game’, slipping into a deep barrel on his backhand to emerge with a 9.33 (out of a possible 10).

Mitch Crews will go up against Kiron Jabour in the quarters. Photo courtesy ASP/Robertson

Coming out of things like this is how Kiron Jabour put up 18.16 points against Alex Smith. Photo courtesy ASP/Robertson

Despite putting up 15.46 points Granger Larson still saw himself knocked out of the comp. Photo courtesy Russ Hennings/Oakley

Conner Coffin was another top performer of the day—he beat Krystian Kymerson by 15.43 points. Photo courtesy ASP/Robertson

Alex Smith. Photo courtesy Russ Hennings/Oakley

Dale Staples' 9.8 ride. Photo courtesy Russ Hennings/Oakley

Freestone, who grew up on the famed break of Snapper Rocks on the Gold Coast, Australia, looked right at home in the reeling right-hand waves despite a daunting heat against Andino.

“He’s such an intimidating surfer,” he said.

“To come up against him in pumping waves gave me more of an opportunity to beat him. I’m so happy.”

Freestone amassing a pair of 9’s (9.2 and 9.27) for two extra deep barrels to setup a comfortable win.

USA wonder kid Conner Coffin (USA), 17, continued the blitzkrieg of barrels against Krystian Kymerson (BRA), driving through the belly of a gaping Keramas tube to nail the day’s highest individual wave score, an 9.83 (out of a possible 10).

Coffin backing it up with an 8.43 (out of a possible 10) to finish with an 18.26 two-wave total to Kymerson’s 2.83.

He’ll now take on Caio Ibelli (BRA) in the second quarter-final.

With onshore conditions hampering proceedings mid-morning, contest organizers decided to finish the day’s surfing with the last heat of Round 4 men’s action.